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Posted by: Gen Jun 18 2007, 04:58 AM

I noticed a strange thing in this video, why is his E string under his pickup?
You can see it at 4:33 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba-ip-mOVjo
Someone asked the same question on the video comments but unfortunately, no one answered him.
Any thoughts?

Posted by: JVM Jun 18 2007, 05:13 AM

Weird!

[edit] but yeah, someone pointed it out, it seems that petrucci hands the camera guy his pick and lets him pick it, but he hits the string too hard and it goes under the pickup (dumbass).

Posted by: lespaulrocker Jun 18 2007, 05:26 AM

jeez, you'd think you'd have guitar savvy camera men...

Posted by: Ibanex Jun 18 2007, 05:32 AM

Maybe John put it there to mute it , so the camera man wouldn't strike it.

Posted by: Rousseau Mannan Oct 15 2008, 04:42 AM

Interesting video.

Posted by: MickeM Oct 15 2008, 06:31 AM

That guitarist is such an amature, tipped the E string under the pickup lol. Go see a guitar master class dude!

kidding of course. If you watch closely it looks like the camera man stuck it there with his first strum.

Posted by: wrk Oct 15 2008, 10:16 AM

I guess this is why Steve Vai often has tape over his neck pickup .. clever this vai guy ..
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Posted by: Scott Gentzen Oct 15 2008, 02:04 PM

QUOTE (wrk @ Oct 15 2008, 05:16 AM)

I guess this is why Steve Vai often has tape over his neck pickup .. clever this vai guy ..
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Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 15 2008, 08:19 PM

I always wondered why Vai has that tape. Question answered - thanks

Posted by: blindwillie Oct 15 2008, 09:12 PM

So. Is that a design flaw on Ibanez, or just Vai who gets carried away?

Posted by: jer Oct 15 2008, 09:20 PM

How would putting tape over the pickup stop that from happening?

Posted by: Noangels Oct 15 2008, 09:45 PM

Never done that on my old jem,even when using the whammy bar and slackening the strings to the flappy extremes and then pulling hard on the bar till it wouldnt go any further!Perhaps if pickups were raised realy high it could get stuck there with extreme whammy abuse

but only from bar abuse-string bending on the top e string would result in bending the top e string down towards the low e string-not the other way!Unless those pickup magnets are realy strong

Posted by: wrk Oct 15 2008, 10:05 PM

It happens quite often on my ibanez, it's not a jem, but it has a humbucker on the neck position.
Mostly the string get stuck when i pick close to the neck.

@jer: humbacker often have this little border on the side, if you cover this up with tape, the string will just slide back.

Posted by: Dejan Farkas Oct 15 2008, 10:23 PM

One more thing Vai did on his EVO



The padding on the back is stuffed with tissue paper to cut down the noise of the springs and the vibrations in the back cavity that inevitably flow through the body and create a lot of noise that is picked up through the pickups. The tissue cuts this noise down tremendously and this tightens up the sound considerably.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 15 2008, 10:55 PM

Cool I didn't know about this stuff ! Looks like Petrucci didn't notice it being stuck....

Posted by: jer Oct 16 2008, 12:47 AM